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U.S. Marines on guard duty in April 2003 near a burning oil well in the Rumaila oil field of Basra, Iraq, following the 2003 U.S. invasion and during the Iraq War.. United States foreign policy in the Middle East has its roots in the early 19th-century Tripolitan War that occurred shortly after the 1776 establishment of the United States as an independent sovereign state, but became much more ...
The United States will work to ensure the safety of chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, the senior U.S. official said, without elaborating except to say there would not be a role for U.S. troops ...
As of 2025, the United States had begun to work with the new Syrian government after the collapse of the former regime under the Assad family. The US government added Ba'athist Syria , which seized power in 1963, to its first list of " State Sponsors of Terrorism " in 1979, over its funding of Palestinian and other insurgent factions in the region.
The Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-570) is a United States Act of Congress that made money laundering a federal crime. It was passed in 1986. It consists of two sections, 18 U.S.C. § 1956 and 18 U.S.C. § 1957. It for the first time in the United States criminalized money laundering.
The focus for the U.S.. after Assad's ouster has been on the historic moment for Syria. Left unsaid: The turmoil could be good news for the U.S.
Assad has since been granted “humanitarian” asylum in Moscow. HTS Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formed from the al-Qaeda linked al-Nusrah Front , is the Sunni Islamist militant group that led ...
Following the Fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, it was unclear if the United States planned to drop Syria from the list of the State Sponsors of Terrorism, although Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, which contributed to Assad's fall and was led by current Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, had been labeled as a terrorist group in 2018.
The regime's collapse marks an end to a 24-year reign, Assad having succeeded his father Hafez al-Assad in 2000. The Assad family had ruled Syria since 1971. Assad oversaw Syria's slide into ...